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Audrey Y. Jenkins, TAP Office, 10 

MetroTech Center, 625 Fulton Street, 

Brooklyn, NY 11201. Due to limited 

conference lines, notification of intent 

to participate in the telephone 

conference call meeting must be made 

with Audrey Y. Jenkins. Ms. Jenkins can 

be reached at the above telephone 

numbers or post comments to the Web 

site: http://www.improveirs.org. 

The agenda will include various IRS 

issues. 

Dated: August 15, 2007. 

John Fay, 

Acting Director, Taxpayer Advocacy Panel. 

[FR Doc. E7–16363 Filed 8–20–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Open Meeting of the Ad Hoc 

Committee of the Taxpayer Advocacy 

Panel 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: An open meeting of the Ad 

Hoc Committee of the Taxpayer 

Advocacy Panel will be conducted (via 

teleconference). The Taxpayer 

Advocacy Panel is soliciting public 

comments, ideas and suggestions on 

improving customer service at the 

Internal Revenue Service. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

Thursday, September 13, 2007 at 2 p.m. 

ET. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Inez 

De Jesus at 1–888–912–1227, or 954–

423–7977. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given pursuant to section 

10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. (1988) 

that an open meeting of the Ad Hoc 

Committee of the Taxpayer Advocacy 

Panel will be held Thursday, September 

13, 2007 at 2 p.m. ET via a telephone 

conference call. If you would like to 

have the TAP consider a written 

statement, please call 1–888–912–1227 

or 954–423–7977, or write Inez De Jesus, 

TAP Office, 1000 South Pine Island 

Road, Suite 340, Plantation, FL 33324. 

Due to limited conference lines, 

notification of intent to participate in 

the telephone conference call meeting 

must be made with Inez De Jesus. Ms. 

De Jesus can be reached at 1–888–912–

1227 or 954–423–7977, or post 

comments to the Web site: http:// 

www.improveirs.org. 

The agenda will include: Various IRS 

issues. 

Dated: August 14, 2007. 

John Fay, 

Acting Director, Taxpayer Advocacy Panel. 

[FR Doc. E7–16364 Filed 8–20–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Thrift Supervision 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request—Community Reinvestment 

Act 

AGENCY: Office of Thrift Supervision 

(OTS), Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury, as part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to comment on 

proposed and continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. 3507. The Office of Thrift 

Supervision within the Department of 

the Treasury will submit the proposed 

information collection requirement 

described below to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. Today, OTS is soliciting 

public comments on its proposal to 

extend this information collection. 

DATES: Submit written comments on or 

before October 22, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments, referring to 

the collection by title of the proposal or 

by OMB approval number, to 

Information Collection Comments, Chief 

Counsel’s Office, Office of Thrift 

Supervision, 1700 G Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20552; send a facsimile 

transmission to (202) 906–6518; or send 

an e-mail to 

infocollection.comments@ots.treas.gov. 

OTS will post comments and the related 

index on the OTS Internet Site at 

http://www.ots.treas.gov. In addition, 

interested persons may inspect 

comments at the Public Reading Room, 

170 G Street, NW., by appointment. To 

make an appointment, call (202) 906–

5922, send an e-mail to 

public.info@ots.treas.gov, or send a 

facsimile transmission to (202) 906–

7755. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

can request additional information 

about this proposed information 

collection from Celeste Anderson, 

Senior Project Manager, Compliance 

and Consumer Protection, (202) 906–

7990, Office of Thrift Supervision, 1700 

G Street, NW., Washington, DC 20552. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OTS may 

not conduct or sponsor an information 

collection, and respondents are not 

required to respond to an information 

collection, unless the information 

collection displays a currently valid 

OMB control number. As part of the 

approval process, we invite comments 

on the following information collection. 

Comments should address one or 

more of the following points: 

a. Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of OTS; 

b. The accuracy of OTS’s estimate of 

the burden of the proposed information 

collection; 

c. Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; 

d. Ways to minimize the burden of the 

information collection on respondents, 

including through the use of 

information technology. 

We will summarize the comments 

that we receive and include them in the 

OTS request for OMB approval. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. In this notice, OTS is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

following information collection. 

Title of Proposal: Community 

Reinvestment Act. 

OMB Number: 1550–0012. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Regulation Requirement: 12 CFR 

563e. 

Description: This submission covers 

an extension of OTS’s currently 

approved information collection in 12 

CFR part 563e. The submission involves 

no change to the regulations or to the 

information collection. 

OTS needs the information collected 

to fulfill its obligations under the 

Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) (12 

U.S.C. 2901 et seq.) to evaluate and 

assign ratings to the performance of 

institutions, in connection with helping 

to meet the credit needs of their 

communities, including low- and 

moderate-income neighborhoods, 

consistent with safe and sound banking 

practices. OTS uses the information in 

the examination process and in 

evaluating applications for mergers, 

branches, and certain other corporate 

activities. Financial institutions 

maintain and provide the information to 

OTS. 

Type of Review: Revisions to a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profit; individuals. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

838. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 838. 

Estimated Frequency of Response: On 

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Estimated Total Burden: 76,463 

hours. 

Clearance Officer: Ira L. Mills, (202) 

906–6531, Office of Thrift Supervision, 

1700 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20552. 

Dated: August 15, 2007. 

Deborah Dakin, 

Senior Deputy Chief Counsel, Regulations and 

Legislation Division. 

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BILLING CODE 6720–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Advisory Committee on OIF/OEF 

Veterans and Families; Notice of 

Meeting 

The Department of Veterans Affairs 

(VA) gives notice under Public Law 92–

463 (Federal Advisory Committee Act) 

that the Advisory Committee on OIF/ 

OEF Veterans and Families will meet on 

September 11–13, 2007, at the 

Department of Veterans Affairs’ Medical 

Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The 

meeting will be held in the auditorium 

of that facility and will be open to the 

public. 

On September 11, the session will 

begin at 9:30 a.m. and end at 12 noon. 

On September 12, the session will begin 

at 9 a.m. and end at 2 p.m. On 

September 13, the session will begin at 

9 a.m. and end at 3:30 p.m. 

The purpose of the Committee is to 

advise the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 

on the full spectrum of health care, 

benefits delivery and related family 

support issues that confront 

servicemembers during their transition 

from active duty to veteran status and 

during their post-service years. The 

Committee will focus on the concerns of 

all men and women with active military 

service in Operation Iraqi Freedom and/ 

or Operation Enduring Freedom, but 

will pay particular attention to severely 

disabled veterans and their families. 

The agenda for the September 11–13 

meeting will include briefings by each 

of the two subcommittees on recent site 

visits, an update on recent legislation 

affecting veterans and veterans’ benefits, 

and an update on recommendations 

from the President’s Task Force on 

Returning Global War on Terror Heroes. 

The Committee will also discuss its 

findings and recommendations, its 

general workplan, next steps and future 

meeting dates. 

The meeting will include time 

reserved for public comments. 

Individuals wishing to make oral 

statements must pre-register not later 

than September 4, 2007 by contacting 

Tiffany Glover by e-mail at 

tiffany.glover@va.gov, and by submitting 

a 1–2 page summary of their statements 

for inclusion in the official record of the 

meeting. Oral statements by the public 

will be limited to five minutes each and 

will be received at 11:30 a.m.–12 p.m. 

on September 11, and at 3 p.m.–3:30 

p.m. on September 13. The public may 

also submit written statements for the 

Committee’s review to the Advisory 

Committee on OIF/OEF Veterans and 

Families (008), Department of Veterans 

Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20420. 

Anyone seeking additional 

information should contact Ronald 

Thomas, Esq., Designated Federal 

Officer, at (202) 273–5182. 

By Direction of the Secretary. 

Dated: August 14, 2007. 

E. Philip Riggin, 

Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 07–4080 Filed 8–20–07; 8:45 am] 

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